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Corbridge in Northumberland County England History and GeographyCORBRIDGE, a parish in the eastern division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, comprising the chapelry of Halton, and the townships of Aydon, Aydon-Castle, Clarewood, Corbridge, Dilston, Halton-Shields, Thornborough, Great Whittington, and Little Whittington, and containing 2037 inhabitants, of which number, 1254 are in the township of Corbridge, 4½ miles (E.) from Hexham. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £11. 11. 8., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is supposed to have been built out of the ruins of a neighbouring Roman station; it is a neat edifice, having undergone frequent repairs. There are places of worship for Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and Roman Catholies. The village, formerly a borough and market town of considerable extent, stands north of the river Tyne, over which there is a bridge of seven arches; but, though well built, and in repute for its healthy situation, it has lost its former importance; the privilege of returning members having been found too expensive, and the market falling into disuse. Near the centre of the market-place is a cross erected in 1814, by the Duke of Newcastle, who, in 1815, constructed a fountain near it, which, together with another fountain erected by the inhabitants, is supplied with water from a reservoir in the vicinity. A fair, held on the eve, day, and morrow, of St. John the Baptist, has fallen into disuse; but fairs are held at Stagshaw Bank, in this parish, for the sale of live stock, annually on Whitsun-eve and July 4th; and a tryst fair on the 24th of November, established in 1820: at the fair in July a great quantity of linen and woollen cloth brought from Scotland is exposed for sale. At this place, David, King of Scots, encamped in 1138. Corbridge was burnt by the Scots in 1296 and in 1311. Two battles are stated to have been fought here, one between the royalists and the Scottish troops, during the parliamentary war; the scene of the other is termed the Bloody Acre. To the west are vestiges of a Roman station, on the line of the ancient Watling-street, supposed by Camden to be the Curia Ottadinarum of Ptolemy, and by Horsley the Corstopitum of Antoninus, now called Corchester, where coins and numerous other antiquities have been found; and in 1735 a large piece of Roman plate, twenty inches long and fifteen broad, and weighing one hundred and forty-eight ounces, was discovered in an enclosure south of the place, near the Tyne, which was claimed by the Duke of Somerset, as lord of the manor. In the church-yard, two altars, with Greek inscriptions, were dug up, one of them in honour of the Tyrian Hercules, which is esteemed the greatest curiosity of the kind in Britain. King John, expecting from the past importance of the place, to discover buried treasure, ordered diligent search to be made, but without effect: about a century and a half since some bones and teeth, of an extraordinary size, were accidentally exposed by the flooding of the stream Cor, and were supposed to be the remains of oxen sacrificed at the above-mentioned altar of Hercules. In addition to the present parochial church, here were three others, viz., St. Mary's, St. Helen's, and Trinity church, of which there are not any remains, though the site of each is well known. South of the church stands a venerable tower, once used as the town gaol; and a little to the east is an eminence called Gallow-hill, where criminals were executed. The parish contains lead-ore, coal, and lime-stone: several tanners' and skinners' pits, built of brick, were discovered in a field in the neighbourhood, in 1760. A court leet and court baron is held on Easter-Tuesday, under the authority of the Duke of Northumberland, as lord of the manor. A school, supported by subscription, was established in 1824. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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